In a stunningly “brave” opinion, the Land of Lincoln’s Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the FOID Act – the crown jewel of racist gun control in Illinois – does not run afoul of the Second Amendment. The 2-1 decision upholding the FOID Act gave us not one, but two creative legal interpretations on how to side-step “shall not be infringed” along with the US Supreme Court’s Bruen decision and its “text, history and tradition” standard by which gun control laws are to be evaluated by inferior courts.
Yep. Just as the courts and government units frequently tried to side-step or ignore the landmark US Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education which ended racial segregation in public schools, many courts have gone out of their way to ignore or outright flout the Bruen precedent they are bound by law to follow.
And just as Brown v. Board of Education had racial implications, so too does the Illinois FOID Act.
Here’s the transcript of a recording of a conversation then Mayor Richard Daley had with then President Johnson. (Thank you to Mom-At-Arms for this!)
Well, as good as they can be, but we need some kind of federal help to shut off this gang situation. This gang situation in New York, in Los Angeles, in Philadelphia, in Cleveland, in Pittsburgh, in Detroit, in San Francisco, is no good. And if it’s allowed to go unabated, if it’s allowed to go and fester the way it is . . . The majority of them are headed, as you know, by ex-convicts: dope pushers, robbery with a gun, all of this kind of business. And there—something has to be done, Mr. President, on the sale of the guns. We—Outside [in] the suburbs—in the city we have control—but what the hell, in the suburbs that are—you go out to all around our suburbs and you got people out there, especially the non-white, are buying guns right and left. You got guns and rifles and pistols and everything else. There’s no registration; there isn’t a damn thing. Something has to be done under this gun law because, you see, the same thing happened in Cleveland that happened here—snipers shooting off the roof at police. Well, where the hell did they get the weapon?
Here’s the opinion. It’s almost 100 pages long.
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